| Workshop Listing : 2010 | ||
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Just a brief outline of my current Workshop agenda. If you'd like more details, please feel free to: |
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Cut Back
Reverse Appliqué - Make A Miniature
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| Landscapes Make a landscape using coloured fabrics you have created yourself and achieve stunning results. Using freezer paper or bond-a-web appliqué you can make a wall-hanging or a picture suitable for framing. Hand or machine work. |
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| Jewellery Use felt, pelmet vilene and machine embroidery to make earrings and brooches. I’ll supply the findings, designs, ideas and encouragement – if you’ll supply the enthusiasm! |
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| Appliqué
Dabble Day Learn the various types of hand and machine appliqué – perfect for quilting and embroidery. This is a technique learning day and appliqué is one of my specialities! |
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| My
Most Popular Workshop 3D Freeshape Appliqué Learn how to make a quick quilt background and then add the free-shape appliqué pieces to make an individual hanging. Brilliant! |
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| Layer Upon a Quilt An unusual way to make a quilt...... make a three layer sandwich as usual, and then keep adding and adding. Sheer fabrics, acrylic paint and embellishments make this a fabric that can be used for needle cases, vases and book-covers. Some knowledge of free machine quilting /embroidery is helpful. |
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Machine Quilting Dabble Day |
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| Innovation Dabble Day I’ll show you how to use some of the new products on the market to enhance your quilt-making and embroidery. Image transfer, 3D paints, Fuse FX, foiling are just some of the products we will look at. |
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| Jazzy Fabric Books Use up all your scraps – along with some lace, buttons, 3D paint and other embellishments to make a fabric book for all your precious memories. Photos can be transferred to fabric and pockets made for all those special trinkets. |
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| Microwave Dyeing Learn how to use these dyes in your microwave – you’ll create some sumptuous colours in an amazingly short time. We’ll also look at how to use this technique in your work. |
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| Indigo Dyeing Use the queen of dyes and a variety of resist techniques to create some wonderful dyed fabrics, lace and threads. Dyes provided. |
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| Textured Dimensions – One Day Workshop A day’s adventure into the world of texture! Using soldering irons, hot air guns and free machine embroidery, you’ll combine plastics and paints to make a stunning panel for framing or mounting. |
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| Textured Dimensions – Two Day Workshop Use a microwave to dye fabrics – and as a by product, plastic bags! Then on day two we’ll create a small wall-hanging, which you can embellish with foiling, stamping and 3D paint. |
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| Image Transfer Dabble Day Come and learn some easy techniques for transferring images to fabric, these can then be made into fabric collages ready for machine stitching. |
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| Image Transfer - Two Day Workshop On day one we will play with various types of image transfer techniques and on day two we will apply this to textiles in order to create some stunning panels ready for framing! |
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| Fuse Effects During this workshop we will be experimenting with painted bond-a-web, papers, fabrics, stitch, paint and foiling to produce a very original work of art that will be a jumping off point for further work. |
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| Talks Listing : 2010 | ||
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Traditional Start - With A Contemporary
Twist We’ll take a tour through some of my quilts – from the first to my latest creations. Not suitable if public transport is required. |
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| Lots of Ways with Appliqué I use appliqué extensively in my textile art. Come along and learn lots of useful hints and tips which you can use in your own work. |
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| Innovative Quiltmaking I’ll talk about some of the unusual techniques that I use in my work and how you can introduce them into your own quilts. |
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| My Recent Work and Inspirations The soldering iron, image transfer and emulsion paint have all made an appearance in my work in the last few years. In this talk I will discuss my thought processes and inspirations! |
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